Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Faculdade de Letras LET060 INGLES: EXPRESSAO ORAL - M4 Profa.: Gladys de Souza Leonardo Henrique Machado Topic: Oral Genres The language user is in a position to act in different communicative situations and with different purposes. To be able to express oneself fluently‚ the language user draws on a number of different competences or linguistic resources which‚ together‚ make up language proficiency or communicative competence. Many of
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An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William Faulkner In the writings of William Faulkner‚ the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world‚ which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi‚ where he is from‚ during the post-Civil War period. It is most frequently Northern Mississippi that Faulkner uses for his literary territory‚ changing Oxford to "Jefferson" and Lafayette County to "Yoknapatawpha
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Music Genre Classification with the Million Song Dataset 15-826 Final Report Dawen Liang‚† Haijie Gu‚‡ and Brendan O’Connor‡ † School of Music‚ ‡ Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University December 3‚ 2011 1 Introduction The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) draws from musicology‚ signal processing‚ and artificial intelligence. A long line of work addresses problems including: music understanding (extract the musically-meaningful information from audio waveforms)
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Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction & non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biography‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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excessive use of violence and the glamorization of organized crime. Still‚ audiences filled theaters to see the stars like Paul Muni‚ Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney depict Al Capone-like gangsters featured in headlines. Which made the gangster genre extremely popular‚ but short lived. Johnny Fontane in the 1972 blockbuster The Godfather sobbed “oh Godfather‚ I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.” On the day of his daughter’s wedding‚ Don Vito Corleone‚ head of one of five New York
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Joe Brunner Instructor Belmihoub English 120 1/29/14 Characteristics of the Action Genre Abstract With the gaining popularity of many different types of movie genres‚ Action movies are rising up as well because there are many actors and directors. There are many characteristics that define an action movie and how it should be made. While looking at the movie posters I found some similar features between all three. While looking at the photos I further saw the reasoning behind the similarities. At
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the most famous author of Southern Gothic literature‚ Flannery O’Connor’s short stories depict grotesque themes through the utilization of dark humour and damaged characters. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” the southern setting provides the perfect space for a distorted series of events‚ leading to the murder of an entire family. In “Everything That Rises Must Converge‚” the character of various people are dissected in an attempt to understand each character’s southern personality. Lastly‚ “Enoch
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characters‚ effective use of music and sound effects‚ words and setting. He does not use Acts‚ but divides the play into eleven scenes‚ as with all other scenes‚ Scene 10 naturally leads to a dramatic climax. He creates dramatic tension in “A Streetcar Named Desire” through the antagonism between Blanche and Stanley. Blanche’s dislike and condescending opinion towards Stanley are shown through the overheard conversation she had with Stella in Scene 4. When she unreservedly degrades Stanley by drawing
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1. Why do we need to study literature? * Literature is filled with ideas that need to be explored. * Literature helps us to see our world in new ways. It brings us to a deeper understanding of life. * It is important to study literature since when we begin the study of literature‚we find it has always two aspects‚one of the simple enjoyment and appreciation and the other of analysis and exact description. Usually what happen when we go through literature in our classroom either by
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Compare the theatrical techniques and staging in act one of Oleanna and Street Car Named Desire The two plays Street car named desire and Oleanna are very different plays in their use of theatrical devices. Tennesse Williams’ play Street Car Named Desire gives us a long description of the New Orleans world its based in. Describing the flats with the name “elysan fields” relating the to heaven despite the appearance of the street that seems “falling apart at the fabric of the seems”‚ the colour
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